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I believe it's a GoDaddy issue. I've recently had issues with my GoDaddy hosted site. I have 3 other hosting sites and all of them are faster. To gather accurate results, I duplicated the GoDaddy hosted site and installed on the other 3 servers. All were considerably faster that GoDaddy. In the past everything was fine, but about 3 months ago I started noticing performance issues.

I contacted GoDaddy about the issues and they created a ticket. They asked me to do a tracert on my computer and send it to them.

Their final reply was:

We didn't find any performance issues on your site. The next time you experience issues please contact a representative so we can diagnose the issues.

I've contacted them several times and they continue to deny it's their server, but i can guarantee you it is. I am just waiting for that specific sites hosting account to expire so I can move it to a better provider (Out of the other providers I use, MidPhase has been the most reliable.

There are always ways to speed up your site, but in my opinion nothing you can do will provide the results that you are expecting. My advice is to either wait out the current account, or see if you can get a refund and switch to another host.

The page loaded in 4 seconds, loading about 400KB of data in 37 separate requests. That seems quite normal for WordPress. If you want to investigate further, get these three open-source tools: Firefox, Firebug and YSlow.

You might consider moving the Google Analytics code to the bottom of the script. Google recommends that. You might also consider combining the CSS files into one.

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ISPs and hosting companies seem to feel that any response under 500mS is just fine. That would be for each file request. None of them are going to put any significant effort into improving the response of shared hosting. From my experience, you will have to find other hosting. But still, no host is going to guarantee better response times for shared hosting.